Jerome Waldie — Fair Play for Frogs Part-2
As a lawyer and a student of political science, I have come to appreciate the anomalies and humor of politics. One story that fits both of those categories well is the relationship between Nestle J. Frobish, the Chair-Creature of World-Wide Fair Play for Frogs Committee and the late Jerome R. Waldie, his former nemesis a Member of Congress from Antioch, just east of San Francisco, California. Their dissension arose in 1961 when Waldie was a freshman member of the California State Assembly and chose to introduce what came to be known as the “Frog Murder Bill,” resulting in Frobish organizing what turned out to be a 45 year campaign to get Waldie to renounce, what Frobish called his “vestigial impurities” visited upon him as the “mad butcher of the swamp.” Waldie finally acceded in 2006 and in this interview originally broadcast on June 11, 2007, tells us why.
The book that Jerome Waldie recommends is, “It Can’t Happen here,” by Sinclair Lewis.
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on April 15th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Wonderful interview with Brother Jerome!
What a fine person he recently became.
How soon can your show go national?
on April 15th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Radio Curious can go national now. You could help if you were to contact all stations on you feel Radio Curious should be aired. May I ask how did you come be such an auspicious name as Dudley Knox?